Opera Mobile 10 final has landed for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile users. Opera Mobile 10 sports a brand-new look, tabbed browsing and loads of useful features to make your mobile life even easier! Best of all, Opera Mobile 10 is now free! :yes:

Well-deserved congratulations go out to the Opera Mobile team who has been working overtime since the first Opera Mobile 10 Beta to reach today’s final launch.

Our beta launches were a huge success thanks to your support. As always, we welcome your feedback in our forum.

Time for a quick nap. More builds to work on.

Best regards,

The Opera Mobile team

We’ve taken everything you know and love about Opera Mini and made it even better! Opera Mini 5 is finally here, sporting a brand new look, tabbed browsing and loads of useful features to make your mobile life even easier! …

Today is an exciting day here at the Opera Mini team. Early this

morning Opera Mini 5 beta was released for Android. It’s available now

in the Android Market! …

Today we launched the native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and 6- based handsets. …

Yesterday afternoon the Opera Mini servers were upgraded to version 4.16.916. This upgrade is special introducing an upgrade to a newer version of Opera Presto, our rendering engine.

• Upgraded to Opera Presto 2.4 (see http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto24/ for changes, but be aware that not all of them apply to Opera Mini)
  
  
• New user agent string:
  
  "Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/$CLIENT_VERSION/908; U; $CLIENT_LANG) Presto/2.4.15"
  
  
• Fixed issue with wrong links being clicked after going back in history
  
  
• Various bug fixes and improvements in site compatibility
  
  

Today Opera Mobile 10 moves one step closer towards final with the release of Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 for both Symbian/S60 and Windows Mobile. Beta 3 includes a few new features, and a lot of bug fixing and stabilization. Read more on www.opera.com/mobile. Or download it now at www.opera.com/mobile/download/ from a PC or "m.opera.com" from a mobile phone.



New improvements include:



Windows Mobile Keypad Support:

Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 now supports keypad devices running Windows Mobile 6 standard, and Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone devices.



Experimental Flashlite 3.1 (Windows Mobile):

This beta also brings experimental Flash support to Windows Mobile (touch devices only). However, Flash performance and usability depends greatly on how powerful your device is. On the 1Ghz HTC Touch HD2 the overall experience is quite good. On anything slower it varies from mediocre to poor.



For this reason we have disabled flash by default in the Opera Mobile settings. To enable flash goto Tools -> Settings -> Advanced and set plug-ins to "On".



Note that Opera Mobile has Click-to-play functionality for plug-ins. So even when plug-ins are enabled you activate individual Flash content by clicking on it. This to minimize the use of bandwith and CPU on content you may not be interested it





We also wanted to take the chance to thank the Opera Mobile community for all of the great feedback and bug reporting on the Beta 1 & Beta 2 releases. The feedback has been truly helpful and has made a direct impact for us reaching Beta 3 status. We look forward to your feedback on today’s beta.



The main improvements from the previous betas are:



S60:

- Support for non-latin characters in the UI also when phone is set to latin locale (requires international build)

- A lot of input and keyboard related fixes

- Fixed text selection

- Visual indication of input mode also for non-latin input modes

- General bug fixing (stability, UI)



Windows Mobile

- keypad/smartphone support

- Flash Lite 3.1 support (disabled by default)

- BIDI support also for language extensions

- phone numbers in plain text are converted to links

- support for background sound

- general bug fixing (stability, UI)



Known issues include:



Both:

- Opera Link: Bookmarks saved in Beta 2 are lost when upgrading to Beta 3

- Hotmail does not work, please use the mobile version "www.hotmail.com/m"

- Dragonfly - need to do ‘connect’ two times in a row to get a connection working



S60:

- After permanently accepting an untrusted certificate, you get an error when trying to load the https:// page again. Workaround: In the S60 device menu go to the Settings -> General -> Security -> Certificate Management -> Trusted site certificates and delete the certificate for the problematic site



Windows Mobile:

- Flash is only a preview/in alpha state, expect instabilities, performance degradation during use

- Flash is only supported on touch devices

- Need to double-click on Flash content to view it in full-screen, another double-click to return

- right-to-left support is not complete in the UI

- On certain WM5 Smartphone/WM6 Standard devices, the dictionary is not disabled in the password field

- Unable to type special characters on Moto Q9

- Certain HTC devices with TouchFLO will force Opera back to portrait mode if visiting home screen when Opera is in landscape

- Some input method editors are known not to work well with Opera because they do not comply with Microsoft’s SIP and/or IME standard. When such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use a known (default) input method instead. An exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad and compact QWERTY, ABC mode doesn’t work, but the rest of the modes work fine. We recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid this.

Yesterday afternoon the global Opera Mini cluster was upgraded to version 4.15.2444. The main improvements include

• better support for sms:, smsto:, mmsto: and mailto:
  
  
• improved reliability of synchronization using Opera Link
  
  
• many patches improving site compatibility
  
  
• fix for an issue related to progressive loading
  
  
• better support for Mini 5’s download manager
  
  
• fix for some "clicking just reloads page" problems
  
  
• fix for unicode problems in regular expressions
  
  

Unfortunately, server-side support for password auto-completion had to be temporarily disabled.

We are happy to announce that Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is now available in the following languages:

• Bulgarian
  
• Croatian
  
• Czech
  
• Danish
  
• Dutch
  
• English (British)
  
• English (International)
  
• English (US)
  
• Finnish
  
• French
  
• German
  
• Greek
  
• Hungarian
  
• Indonesian
  
• Italian
  
• Norwegian
  
• Polish
  
• Portuguese
  
• Romanian
  
• Russian
  
• Slovak
  
• Slovenian
  
• Spanish
  
• Swedish
  
• Turkish
  
• Ukrainian
  

To download Opera Mini 5 beta 2 in one of these languages, delete your current installation and visit http://m.opera.com/next using your phone’s native browser.

Known issues:

• In some languages, long words may overlap in parts of the user interface.
  

As always, we welcome your feedback in our forum, and please report any bugs in our bug report wizard. Thanks!

We are working hard to provide more languages, so don’t worry if your language is not yet listed! :yes:

Best regards,
The Opera Mini team

This afternoon, the Mini servers were upgraded to 4.14.1186 to further
improve site compatibility and inform Mini 5 Beta 1 users about the
availability of the second Beta. Moreover, the synchronization of
speed dials for Mini 4 clients was fixed and the handling of login
dialogs using placeholders for password fields improved. :yes:

We get quite a few questions about the difference between Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10. This post will attempt to clarify.

NB! Unless you have a Windows Mobile or Symbian/S60 phone, Opera Mobile is not available for you to download to your phone. Enjoy Opera Mini!

First, here is what they have in common:

• Both are based on the same core technology, the Opera Presto browser engine (just like Opera for desktop).
  
• Both use the same cross-platform user interface, providing similar features and browsing experience.
  

And the difference:

• In Opera Mini, the Opera Presto browser engine is located on a server. In Opera Mobile, it is installed on your phone. …